Fill out the following chart based on your personal notes from reading and team discussion.
Name
Quote and page #
Response/analysis
Jacob
"He was clambering heavily among the creeper and broken trunks"(pg.7)
Introducing the vegetation of the jungle where they are stranded in. Indicating that the location is very thick,wild.
Cata
"Here the roots and stems of creepers were in such tangles that the boys had to thread through them like pliant needles. Their only guide, apart from the brown ground occasional flashes of light through the foliage..." (pg.26)
Gives the reader an idea of the forest. Describes the inside. Indicates that
Cata
"The reef enclosed more than one side of the island, lying perhaps a mile out and parallel to what they now thought of as their beach. The coral was scribbled in the sea as through a giant had bent down to reproduce the shaped of the island in a flowing chalk line but tired before he finished. Inside was a peacock water, rocks and weeds showing as in an aquarium..." (pg.29)
Description of a coral. Indicates that Ralph is observant of his surroundings. Gives us a better idea of the location. Jacob & Cata
Alejandro
"Beyond falls and cliffs there was a gash visible in the trees; there were the splintered trunks and then the drag, leaving only a fringe pals between
Jacob
By the trunk of a vast tree that grew pale flower on its grey bark he checked closed his eyes and once more drew in the warm air.
Cata
"Trees, forced by the damp hear, found too little soil for full growth, fell early and decayed; creepers cradled them and new saplings searched a way up" (pg.39)
Jacob
"One patch touched a tree trunk and scrabbled up like a bright squirrel." (pg.44)
Cata
" Flower and fruit grew together on the same tree and everywhere was the scent of ripeness and the booming of a million bees at pasture." (pg. 56)
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